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Excerpt from The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees

A Novel

by Elif Shafak
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  • Nov 2, 2021, 368 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Feb 2023, 368 pages
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Sooner or later, this old, dilapidated well on that lonely, beautiful island at the far end of the Mediterranean Sea will collapse in on itself and its secret will rise to the surface, as every secret is bound to do in the end.

Excerpted from The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. Copyright © 2021 by Elif Shafak. Excerpted by permission of Bloomsbury USA. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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